Prairie Girls Track

Prairie girls capture own track meet

There are 14 seniors on the Prairie girls track team, and until Tuesday night they’d never won their own invitational meet.

Not only did they break the jinx, but the Hawks blew away the field in a strong eight-team matchup.

By winning four individual events and three relays, Prairie scored 157 points. Runner-up Iowa City West totaled 99.5 points; far behind were good squads from Davenport West, Linn-Mar and Cedar Rapids Washington.

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Griffin wins shot put for Prairie

MUSCATINE -- Rachel Griffin won the shot put title to help the Cedar Rapids Prairie Hawks finish in third place in the team standings at the Dick Washburn Invitational in Muscatine on Thursday.

Griffin captured the shot put with a heave of 35 feet, 6 inches.

Leslie Harder finished second in the high jump and Alex Malloy placed second in the discus for Prairie. The Hawks also placed second in the 4x100 and 4x200 relays.

Jasmyne Jones placed second in the 100- and 200-meter dash for the Cedar Rapids Washington Warriors. Shannon Gorman took second in the 3000 for the Warriors, who finished in seventh place in the team standings.

Iowa City West trimmed Pleasant Valley for the title.

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Wood, Soeken win titles for Prairie girls

PELLA -- Jocelyn Wood and Kenzie Soeken won individual titles for Cedar Rapids Prairie at an indoor girls track meet at Central College on Saturday.

Wood captured the 800-meter run in a field of 69 runners in 2:28.65. She also finished fourth in the 1500-meter run in 5:19.10.

Soeken tied for first in the high jump at 5 feet.

Aminah Baloch had a busy day for the Prairie Hawks. She placed fifth in the 200-meter dash (28.13), sixth in the 55-meter dash (7.51) and sixth in the long jump (14-10 1/2).

Sarah Meyers took fifth in the 3000 (12:11.02), Hailee Montgomery placed fifth in the 55-meter hurdles (8.82), Leslie Harder was sixth in the high jump (4-10), Hannah Grimm finished sixth in the 400 (1:06.62), Maddie Baetsle placed eighth in the long jump (14-9) and Rachel Griffin was eighth in the shot put (34-10).

Prairie also finished fourth in the 4x200 relay (1:56.00).

Leslie Harder wins MVC high jump

CEDAR FALLS - Marissa Estelle appeared to have a promising track career when she finished fifth in the 100 meter hurdles at the Class 4A state track meet as a freshman in 2010 for the Kennedy Cougars.

Then came the injuries.

She tore several muscles in her hip as a sophomore, then grew four inches prior to her junior year in high school and suffered from growing pains, shin splints and apophysitis in her hips. "It's when you grow too fast and the bone pulls apart," she explained.

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